Error Failed to lookup view in Express

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Note  my auto answer at end of the post  I m trying to make a better experience of nodeJS and i don t really like to get all the script in one file   so  following a post here i use this structure      config     enviroment js    routes js  public     css       styles css    images  views    index      index jade    section      index jade    layout jade  app js   My files are right now   app js  var express   require  express    var app   module exports   express createServer     require    config enviroment js   app  express   require    config routes js   app    app listen 3000     enviroment js  module exports   function app  express        app configure function             app use express logger             app use express static   dirname     public             app set  views     dirname     views            app set  view engine    jade      extension of views                 development configuration     app configure  development   function             app use express errorHandler               dumpExceptions  true              showStack  true                             production configuration     app configure  production   function             app use express errorHandler                   routes js  module exports   function app         app get        index     inicio    function req  res            res render  index index                 app get   test   function req  res              res render  index index                  layout jade      5 html     head         link rel  stylesheet   href   css style css           title Express   Jade     body          main             h1 Content goes here              container   body   index index jade  h1 algoa   The error i get is      Error  Failed to lookup view  index index        at Function render  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib application js 495 17        at render  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib response js 614 9        at ServerResponse render  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib response js 638 5        at c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses config routes js 4 7       at callbacks  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib router index js 177 11        at param  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib router index js 151 11        at pass  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib router index js 158 5        at Router  dispatch  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib router index js 185 4        at Object router  as handle   c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express lib router index js 45 10        at next  c  xampp htdocs nodejs buses node modules express node modules connect lib proto js 191 15    But i don t really know what is the problem     I m starting thinking is because the modules exports     Answer  Far away the unique solution i found is to change the place i defined app set  views   and views engine  I moved it to the app js and now is working well   var express   require  express    var app   module exports   express createServer      require    config enviroment js   app  express    app set  views     dirname     views    app set  view engine    jade     require    config routes js   app    app listen 3000     I don t really understand the logic behind this but i gonna supose it have one

User · Answer

This problem is basically seen because of case sensitive file name. for example if you save file as index.jadge than its mane on route it should be "index" not "Index" in windows this is okay but in linux like server this will create issue.

1) if file name is index.jadge

app.get('/', function(req, res){
      res.render("index");
});

2) if file name is Index.jadge

app.get('/', function(req, res){
      res.render("Index");
});

User · Answer

I had the same error at first and i was really annoyed  you just need to have    before the path to the template  res render    index index      Hope it works  worked for me

User · Answer

use this code to solve the issue   app get      function req  res       res render  index

User · Answer

In my case  I solved it with the following   app set  views        dirname  views    app use express static      dirname  public       I needed to start node app min js from  dist folder   My folder structure was

User · Answer

I change the views folder name to views render and also facing the same issue as above  so restart server js and it works for me

User · Answer

It is solved by adding the following code in app js file  app engine  html   require  ejs   renderFile   app set  view engine    html    app set  views     dirname    app get      function req  res       res render  index

User · Answer

npm install express 2 5 9 installs the previous version  if it helps  I know in 3 x the view layout mechanic was removed  but this might not be your problem  Also replace express createServer   with express   Update  It s your   dirname from environment js It should be  app use express static   dirname       public

User · Answer

You could set the path to a constant like this and set it using express   const viewsPath   path join   dirname      views    app set  view engine   hbs     app set  views   viewsPath    app get      function req  res     res render  index           This worked for me

User · Answer

Just noticed that I had named my file   index html  instead for  index html  with a leading space   That was why it could not find it

User · Answer

I had this issue as well on Linux  I had the following    res render    views index    I changed it too   res render     views index     Everything is now working

User · Answer

I had the same issue and could fix it with the solution from dougwilson  from Apr 5  2017  Github    I changed the filename from index js to index pug Then used in the     route  res render  index pug   - instead of res render  index   Set environment variable  DEBUG express view Now it works like a charm

User · Answer

Check if you have used a proper view engine  In my case I updated the npm and end up in changing the engine to  hjs  I was trying to uninstall jade to use pug   So changing it to jade from hjs in app js file worked for me    app set  view engine   jade

User · Answer

This error really just has to do with the file Path thats all you have to check for me my parent folder was  Layouts  but my actual file was layout html my path had layouts on both once i corrected that error was gone

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Adding to  mihai s answer   If you are in Windows  then just concatenating   dirname        public  will result in wrong directory name  For example  c  dev app module   public    Instead use path  which will work irrespective of the OS   var path   require   path    app use express static path join   dirname       public        path join will normalize the path separator character and will return correct path value

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